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North by Northeast: I’m not ready for a cloudy day yet

North by Northeast: I’m not ready for a cloudy day yet

Posted by | Mar 4, 2010 | , |

“North of Northeast” is a column that offers commentaries from a Canadian perspective. Google’s invested millions in it. Apple’s moving steadily towards it and Microsoft’s Office isn’t far behind.

Everywhere you turn, more and more companies are extolling the virtues of “the cloud.” My colleague, Dennis Sellers just wrote an interesting piece where he quotes an unnamed executive as saying “Apple want’s to eliminate the hard drive.” 

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Is closer integration between the Mac OS X and iPhone OS in the future?

Posted by | Mar 2, 2010 | , |

Will the day come when we’ll see closer integration between the iPhone OS and Mac OS X? Some folks think so.

But let’s back up. The iPhone OS is actually a derivative of Mac OS X. They share the Darwin foundation. Darwin is an open source POSIX-compliant computer OS released by Apple in 2000. It’s comprised of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.

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iPhone/iPod/iPad apps for March 1

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

Here are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).

Spectrasonics is offering a free app, Omni Live, which turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a wireless remote control of the “Live Mode” of Spectrasonics’ software synthesizer Omnisphere. Omni Live uses the Apple device’s touch screen, allowing multi-touch, wireless remote sound selection of the Omnisphere plug-in on the user’s computer.

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CS Odessa announces ConceptDraw MindWave beta

CS Odessa announces ConceptDraw MindWave beta

Posted by | Mar 1, 2010 | , |

CS Odessa has released a beta version of its mind mapping tool (http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/mindwave) for Google Wave. This is a no-charge add-in to Google Wave that can be used as part of Google Wave to map out a strategy or brainstorm on a critical topic.

The ConceptDraw MindWave for Google Wave tool allows teams to collaborate on a mind map in an interactive flowing manner building a map structure that represents the planned work. The map add-in supports Google Wave playback that allows one to step back through a map.

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